How to "swap" staging and production slots in release pipeline?

Question

Is there a setting in Azure Devops release pipeline to "swap" deployment slots, similar to how it can be done in Azure Portal with source/target?

We have a stage where after the developer has verified the deployment on staging environment, he would want to enable the swapping to production, but I cannot find a setting like that. The only deployment slot setting I came across in Azure Devops is specifying the slot in App Service deployment task, but theres no swapping mechanism that I see...

Answer 1

Yes, this can be achieved in an Azure DevOps release pipeline.

The only deployment slot setting I came across in Azure Devops is specifying the slot in App Service deployment task...

Yes, this is the first step - deploy your app to a slot using the above-mentioned task:

Then, add a new Azure App Service Manage task to the job:

Which you can then configure like:

You just need to ensure that the Source Slot points to the same one you've deployed to in the Azure App Service deploy task.